Exhibition view: Teresa Margolles, En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene), MoMA PS1, 2026. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Steven Paneccasio
MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art present the first US large-scale museum exhibition of Teresa Margolles (Mexican, b. 1963), featuring several room-sized installations and a new commission. Trained as a forensic pathologist and a photographer, Margolles has created work that examines the implications of transnational violence, with particular attention to the US-Mexico border. Across mediums, her works trace disappearances, femicides, political displacements, and societal neglect through methodical research, site-responsive interventions, and a radical rethinking of the memorial. The exhibition’s centerpiece is La promesa (2012), a monumental barrier made from 14 tons of rubble that the artist disassembled from a home abandoned by a family in Ciudad Juárez. Margolles’s artworks bring pressing systemic issues into public view, materializing the ways violence permeates everyday life with feelings of loss.
Exhibition view: Teresa Margolles, En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene), MoMA PS1, 2026. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Steven Paneccasio
